One thing that bothers me about this sort of "Europe / Asia" division is how anachronistic it is when we talk about events in deep history. In Antiquity, this

One thing that bothers me about this sort of "Europe / Asia" division is how anachronistic it is when we talk about events in deep history. In Antiquity, this division would be unnatural. Asia Minor was an integral constituent part of the Mediterranean civilization, unlike, say, contemporary Germany. The ancients would be fairly confused if we told them that we now put dividing lines between North Africa, Asia Minor+Levant and so-called Europe. For them, it was a bigger civilizational unit, a maritime continent so to say. And the idea that Asia Minor somehow belongs to the same unit as India or China would feel positively weird.